Ubuntu
apt package

Please add attached patch to support Packages.bz2 files

Bug #10306 reported by Michael Vogt on 2004-11-15

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	apt (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Wishlist	Matt Zimmerman

Bug Description

The attached patch adds a apt-config option
"Acquire::ComprExtension"={".gz",".bz2"} . The Packages file with the matching
extension will be downloaded and decompressed.

Revision history for this message

Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote on 2004-11-15:

small patch to support download of bzip2 packages files Edit (953 bytes, text/plain)

Created an attachment (id=764)
small patch to support download of bzip2 packages files

Revision history for this message

Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote on 2004-11-15:

second iteration of the patch Edit (1.9 KiB, text/plain)

Created an attachment (id=767)
second iteration of the patch

I attached a second iteration of the patch. The first version had the serious
drawback that it will either download .gz or .bz2. This version will always try
the .bz2 first and then fallback to .gz.

Revision history for this message

Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote on 2004-11-15:

A slightly modified version of this patch was merged in apt 0.5.30